How To Get Rid of Squirrels in Your Walls

When you talk about pesky rodents that are affecting your property, you often think of mice or rats.

Don't underestimate what a squirrel can do, especially if one gets into your walls.

The insulation of your home makes the perfect nest for a squirrel. If one settles in and raises a family, it's going to stay there until the baby squirrels are ready to leave for squirrel college.

The best way to get rid of squirrels is to make sure they don't have an access point in the first place.

Inspect the exterior of your home to determine if there are any access points to your walls. If there are, then you'll want to screen them off to prevent future entry.

If the squirrels are in the walls already, you can wait until they leave to search out food and then block their access point.

Investing into a one-way exclusion door will allow the squirrels to come out of your walls to get food, but then not be able to get back inside.

Then all you've got to do is find the nest if there is one and remove the baby squirrels.

What Happens If You Can't Find the Entry Point?

Sometimes it can be difficult to find the entry point from the outside.

Squirrels can be crafty and may use a roof vent, an attic access point, or even crawl up from your crawlspace and then dig out their own little hole in the wall.

Live traps are a good option to capture a suspected squirrel infestation and have them removed, but you'll still need to find that access point because otherwise a new family is going to start squatting in your walls.

Using products like strobe lights are generally ineffective.

Avoid using squirrel baits with poison because many jurisdictions allow for squirrel hunting.

In a worst case scenario where nothing is working, a rat trap coated in peanut butter can do the trick, but this is often lethal.

Once you've removed the squirrels, make sure you thoroughly clean out the areas they occupied to avoid illnesses that can be spread by their feces.

Knowing how to get rid of squirrels in your walls can help you to keep your property safe and secure.

Take action today to prevent them from coming inside and you'll already be one step ahead of these pesky little rodents.

Posted on Apr 05, 2016

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